Healthspan, Lifespan and Reality

It is easy to get carried away with extrapolations about what may happen in the future based on available lab data. As biotechnology advances more and more diseases are understood on a molecular level and interventions can be anticipated on the horizon.

Increasing healthspan is going to need a multimodal approach, many things end up failing and they fail at roughly the same rate regardless of which cellular component it is due to the intrinsic evolutionary set-up. Solutions are being developed, but often in a piecemeal scattered way making predictions of what can be achieved difficult.

Questioning Status Quo is always more difficult than accepting things without reflection, again a byproduct of mammalian selection, when questioning Status Quo one also enters the area of unknown (or perhaps things that are known but one did not know).

This applies to aging research, a field that has been historically seen as science fiction but has increasingly become mainstream.

Because of this it is good to show some examples of what happens when age-related disease not occur, one simply lives "normally".

Jonatan the Tortoise seen above was born in 1832 and is still alive in 2024 living a normal tortoise life while all humans born in the 1800s are gone.

The world will not get "insane" from any healthspan extension, it will simply continue on "normally" just like the everyday reality is now for younger people.

The world will be a much better place without age-related ill health, but nothing "strange" will happen apart from that. We should be scared of disease, not of going outside any comfort zone.

Fortunately, many organizations and institutions, an outstanding example is the stellar Hevolution Foundation are pivotal to the world when it comes to achieving the goal of an extended healthspan.